Call to arms: Tinderbox 3.0

[Erwin Lansing]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:36:46PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> The good news is since people like miwi are using it pretty extensively,
> I think 3.0 is in fairly good shape.  The tasks I see need which need to
> be done are as follows:
> 
> * Check for documentation completeness, and fill in any holes.

I was planning on installing a new personal tinderbox anyway, so I'll go
the 3.0 route here and see what I'm missing for a scratch install.
> 
> * Decide on how upgrades will be done.  Will they be automated like
> between 1.x and 2.0, or should we simply instruct users to do a
> wholesale replacement of 2.x with 3.0?  Left to me, I was just going to
> document what needs to happen to install 3.0 from scratch, and forget
> the upgrade.
> 
Too bad it's not left to you :-)  Serouisly though, on the one hand, I
think a scratch install of the shared tb3/tb4 tinderboxes might not be a
bad idea as some things can be done easier, on the other hand, it'll
require quite a lot of work with around 60 users, each with their own
portstree on 3 branches and 2 architectures.  Starting from scratch
might also give an opportunity to see if more can be shared across the
two boxes.

Basic setup right now, portstrees are shared via NFS, all the rest is
running independent in two databases.  The trouble I had at the time was
how to reuse a build on two archs, which I finally gave up on and went
for independent installations and some hackish scripts to create new
users.  So any thoughts on how to ease user administration and share as
much information as possible between an i386, an amd64, and a sparc64 is
in the making, preferably from one webinterface/database.

-erwin

PS: There were rumours about hardware being available at ISC, so I might
have to do a scratch install anyway there.

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